Antonyms for frenzy

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fren-zee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfrɛn zi

Definition of frenzy

Origin : mid-14c., "delirium, insanity," from Old French frenesie, from Medieval Latin phrenesia, from phrenesis, back-formation from Latin phreneticus "delirious" (see frenetic). Meaning "excited state of mind" is from c.1400.

noun uncontrolled state or situation

Example sentences :

Their walk was a delight to him, their roaring gallop a frenzy of eager sensation.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

Nor, in the blindness of his frenzy, had he seen when she had gone nor whither she went.
Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle

Have a care, Jinkins, ere you provoke a desperate man to frenzy!
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

Clotilde, in a frenzy of grief, raised her arm, as if to drive her out of the room.
Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola

They could do neither now, for the fear that possessed them at sight of Israel's frenzy.
Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine

John rebuked them and turned them out of the room, but he was almost in as great a frenzy.
Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine

Call it frenzy if you like—I don't much mind what people call it.
Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine

If so, it was the frenzy of a self-sacrifice that was sublimity itself.
Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine

The girl was in a sort of frenzy of excitement and hysterical exaltation.
Extract from : « Keziah Coffin » by Joseph C. Lincoln

It is the frenzy into which men whip themselves to justify an evil passion.
Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini

Synonyms for frenzy

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